Benjamin Smith wrote:
> > Unless I'm terribly mistaken (again?), the only way I've been able to
> see "loop thru a list of files" work reliably is with "find" using
> the "-print0" option, in cahoots with xargs.
>
> Is there any other way?
for $file in wildcard*
do
ls -l "$file"
done
But this is the point where you should be asking what to do about quotes
embedded in the filenames which won't hurt here because of the order of
operations but would if you tried to collect the strings and use them in
some other ways.
Does anyone have a quick reference to the order of operations as the
shell parses a command line (variable parsing,i/o redirection, wildcard
and variable expansion, splitting on IFS, quote removal, command
substitution etc.)? That's really the first thing you need to know
about the shell and if there is a simple description it must be buried
in the middle of some obscure manual.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com